Russia and Georgia fought a brief war this month over the two provinces.
But the two downstream provinces, Sindh and Baluchistan, where the Muslim League runs coalition governments, fear they will lose water.
Something like half of all US forces in the country are in the two southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
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At the same time, it urged authorities in Baghdad to revisit the decision to delay the vote in the two Sunni provinces and to schedule voting there soon.
It saddled the south-west with the competitive handicaps that today leave those two provinces among the poorest in China.
Mr. Hashemi had backed efforts by the leaderships of two provinces, Salahuddin and Diyala, to set up semiautonomous regions, a process authorized by Iraq's constitution and exemplified by the relative peace and prosperity of the Kurdish region.
His members of parliament grew restless: defections have cut their number to 15, all but two from the Atlantic provinces.
Currently the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Department in the Solomon Islands is planning to continue with in-service professional development for teachers in two more provinces with the aim of increasing the number of teachers with certification.
"We are still busy in two provinces at the moment, so we're hoping to make more arrests, " she said.
Since Sunnis are now divided between yes, no and boycott camps, the rejectionists seem less likely to muster the necessary two-thirds majority in at least three provinces to stymie the new constitution.
The fourth, Baghdad, may have a Sunni majority, as may two of the next-most-violent provinces, Diala and Kirkuk.
That is significant because the legal framework Iraq is now using dictates that the proposed constitution will fail if two-thirds of the voters in three or more provinces reject it.
In the October 15th referendum, three provinces, had they voted against the constitution by a two-thirds majority, could have rejected it, but according to what are now official results, only two majority Sunni provinces did that.
Minimum wages have risen by an average of nearly 22% in the two-thirds of China's provinces which have adjusted them this year.
It grouped five South-East Asian countries (and two Chinese provinces) with the aim of building a transport and energy infrastructure shared by all.
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Mr Blunkett has announced the first three city academies, but two of these are in London, and only one in the provinces, in Liverpool.
He said the official results show that Ahmadinejad more than doubled the 2005 showing for all conservative candidates in the western provinces of Luristan and Khuzestan, two majority-Arab districts that have heavily favored reformist candidates in previous races.
Two rivers in one of the worst-hit provinces, Beni, have broken their banks and are threatening to cut off the main city in the region, Trinidad.
To do so, they must win either a majority of votes overall or take a two-thirds majority in three out of the 18 provinces.
Numbers of livestock have fallen by 40%, partly thanks to an epidemic of screw worms that had spread to two-thirds of Iraq's provinces by the end of last year.
Now it has to pay 9% export tax in two provinces, a prelude, thinks Mr Shotoku, for the tax being levied by other provincial governments too.
While approval required a simple majority, the measure faced one obstacle -- if two-thirds of the voters in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces rejected it, the vote would have failed.
If those provinces turn up "no" votes that surpass two-thirds, the measure will fail.
Also Friday, Afghan and coalition forces arrested about 10 insurgents during joint operations over last two days in four provinces of Afghanistan, including several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, the International Security Assistance Force said.
An evacuation order and a tsunami alert were issued in two southern Thai provinces, Phuket and Phangnga, where some 5, 000 people were killed in the tsunami eight years ago.
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